C-DTRH04 (Feb 8, 2022)
Puzzle
“The other team in the race ran twice as far and ended up next to us, great to see them pass by.”
See: C-DTRH03 | 2 Words
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: Wonderland (or this part of it) has a chess motif. Keep that in mind.
Clue 2: Which piece in chess can move a maximum of two squares? When it ends up next to that same piece, but of an opposite colour, what can happen?
Clue 3: In passing.
Answer and Explanation
Answer: En Passant
Explanation: A special move in chess, where if a pawn is on a square that is two away from an unmoved pawn of the opposite side, and that pawn moves right next to you, you can move diagonally behind that pawn and capture it. Its name is French for "in passing".
Summary of Receipt
161 realises that they're in a piece of Wonderland linked to Through the Looking Glass, not Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. That also explains why they haven't been moving: they're not chess pieces. They can't move. The White Queen gave them the roles of pawns, so now the CaD's trying to just run through the chessboard and reach the other side to catch Nobody. Or nobody. Nobody's really sure, me included.
Transcript
[BRANCH] LONG ISLAND
[SERVER] EMPLOYEE NO. 161
[DATE] 2/8/22
[INDEX ID] DTRH04
[SECURITY] CAFE
oh. its chess. theyre chess pieces. its a through the looking glass situation not an alice's adventures in wonderland situation. why didnt i figure that out earlier? i think im just mentally exhausted. anyway we finally met the white queen who was hanging back waiting for her time to run in the race. she told us we haven't been able to "move" in the race because we havent been moving like chess pieces. OHHHH THATS WHY THE TOWERS GUYS MOVE SO FAST! THEYRE ROOKS. omg. i really should have put this together sooner. i think the smarmy little snake knew this entire time.
anyway the white queen assigned us the role of pawns which has let us leave the courtyard FINALLY. so we're running FAST to try and catch up. can we catch up? i... am really not sure how this race is supposed to work nor do i really know how to play chess. so im just letting no. 422 guide us. so we ran out about 2 spaces from around where the guy with a funny pointy hat was. no. 422 said "it might weaken our kingssssside a bit but i dont quite care for that freeloader anyhow."
at least we are finally make some progress. now we just need to... catch nobody. who i still dont think actually... exists. i guess we can just try and win the race anyhow. i assume we are trying to reach the opposite side of the "chess board" though its hard to say how far away that might be... i guess if weve moved two squares so far... we only need to run four more squares to... win? no that cant be right. dont you have to do a checkmate to win chess? not that anything seems to make sense around here anyway.
love you all!!! study your openings! <3